[Foundation-l] A modest proposal: ads on wikipedia.com

[Kat Walsh]

On 4/22/07, Kat Walsh <kat at mindspillage.org> wrote:
> On 4/22/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > I like this idea. I think wikipedia.com could be an excellent place to
> > have a page of the type:
> >
> > "Welcome to Wikipedia.
> >
> > Wikipedia is not like other web companies out there. [a bit of
> > passionate text about what makes us different] Now, if you want to
> > read Wikipedia content, please go to .. If you want to support
> > Wikipedia, please go to .."
> >
> > This would allow us to retain redirects from article URLs as well.
>
> I'd support doing that right away unless there's a good reason not to,
> actually. :-)
>
> -Kat

And here's a draft to get started with:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia.com_draft

-Kat

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